WATERBURY, Vt. -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

PETA Urges Ben & Jerry's To Use Human Milk

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

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"The fact that human adults consume huge quantities of dairy products made from milk that was meant for a baby cow just doesn't make sense," says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. "Everyone knows that 'the breast is best,' so Ben & Jerry's could do consumers and cows a big favor by making the switch to breast milk."

"We applaud PETA's novel approach to bringing attention to an issue, but we believe a mother's milk is best used for her child," said a spokesperson for Ben and Jerry's.

Read PETA's letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

September 23, 2008

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, Cofounders

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Dear Mr. Cohen and Mr. Greenfield,

On behalf of PETA and our more than 2 million members and supporters, I'd like to bring your attention to an innovative new idea from Switzerland that would bring a unique twist to Ben and Jerry's.

Storchen restaurant is set to unveil a menu that includes soups, stews, and sauces made with at least 75 percent breast milk procured from human donors who are paid in exchange for their milk. If Ben and Jerry's replaced the cow's milk in its ice cream with breast milk, your customers-and cows-would reap the benefits.

Using cow's milk for your ice cream is a hazard to your customer's health. Dairy products have been linked to juvenile diabetes, allergies, constipation, obesity, and prostate and ovarian cancer. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it may play a role in anemia, allergies, and juvenile diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease-America's number one cause of death.

Animals will also benefit from the switch to breast milk. Like all mammals, cows only produce milk during and after pregnancy, so to be able to constantly milk them, cows are forcefully impregnated every nine months. After several years of living in filthy conditions and being forced to produce 10 times more milk than they would naturally, their exhausted bodies are turned into hamburgers or ground up for soup.

And of course, the veal industry could not survive without the dairy industry. Because male calves can't produce milk, dairy farmers take them from their mothers immediately after birth and sell them to veal farms, where they endure 14 to17 weeks of torment chained inside a crate so small that they can't even turn around.

The breast is best! Won't you give cows and their babies a break and our health a boost by switching from cow's milk to breast milk in Ben and Jerry's ice cream? Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman

Executive Vice President

seriously, wtf.

If you think that's hot... imagine the slob of a woman who has to sell breast milk for money, that sounds like a crack addict.

Discuss

bigred76

09-29-2008, 09:30 PM

Three letters come to mind after the first 3 paragraphs: "WTF??????????"

irishwarrior

09-30-2008, 02:25 AM

I've always thought that PETA went a little board. Humans have been consuming milk for millenia, ever since we got that gene that allows us to digest lactose.

DFSniper

09-30-2008, 03:33 AM

TL;DR:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
oh wow, i lol'd so hard!

marvin-martian

09-30-2008, 05:09 AM

wow...screw PETA

badlandsrox

09-30-2008, 05:49 AM

I saw PETA and breasts, and I half expected to see something about Pamela Anderson :dodgy:

STRIKEFIRST

09-30-2008, 06:43 AM

More evidence they're nuts.

VS3 Sniper

09-30-2008, 10:27 AM

What about the mothers that are on drugs, Wouldn't the breast milk pass on some bad affects?

and on another note everyone at peta needs to get a life.

battlechaser

09-30-2008, 11:46 AM

imagine the slob of a woman who has to sell breast milk for money...

*shudder*

I think that's a sure fire way to kill your company.

spyderpaintball

09-30-2008, 02:33 PM

omgwtfbbq.

xsvly-fat

09-30-2008, 02:44 PM

RLYBBQ!!!!

Ok back to topic, I heard about it a few days ago it has to be one of the dumbest things ever I mean at first I thought it was a joke

TheDarkShadow

09-30-2008, 02:45 PM

holy ****, tell me that is a joke!

fatkidfrompbaz

09-30-2008, 03:50 PM

PETA stands for Please Eat The Animals

marvin-martian

09-30-2008, 03:55 PM

PETA stands for Please Eat The Animals

tasty. get it right/

DFSniper

09-30-2008, 04:03 PM

People Eating Tasty Animals

fatkidfrompbaz

09-30-2008, 04:05 PM

People Eating Tasty Animals
thats much better:D

Hoppy11

09-30-2008, 04:32 PM

This serious and I heard the other day on the news that Ben and Jerry's has already basically said no. I doubt they even thought about this for more than like 5 mins.

TheDarkShadow

09-30-2008, 04:35 PM

This serious and I heard the other day on the news that Ben and Jerry's has already basically said no. I doubt they even thought about this for more than like 5 mins.

lol imagine what they would put on their icecream containers instead of cows

especiialypsycho

09-30-2008, 04:55 PM

lol imagine what they would put on their icecream containers instead of cows

Im guessing pictures of the old people/prostitues that support them the most

DisIsMyUsername

09-30-2008, 05:59 PM

mmmm breast milk.

..................................

right.

UKwithPride

09-30-2008, 06:27 PM

Heard this on Bob and Tom, and they had some stuff to say about it... rofl.